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Corinne
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

0 posted 2003-07-13 09:58 PM

We Have No Tomatoes

A sad thing, my tomato garden.
Each stem flowered beautifully at first –
green, full leaves with buttercup buds.
Now, stalks are mushy, flowers gray.
The plants, which should be loaded
with ripening fruit, are bare.

There will be no prized Evergreens.
Not even an Early Girl in July.

Still, I water them deeply, spread fertilizer
round their roots, prune off the suckers.
My neighbor picks her red Romas
and smiles. I hate that woman.

© 2003 Core

[This message has been edited by Corinne (07-13-2003 10:01 PM).]

wranx
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since 2002-06-07

Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

1 posted 2003-07-13 10:00 PM

Sorry Core, But this made me laugh.

"I hate that woman"

Ha

Corinne
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

2 posted 2003-07-13 10:22 PM

Ha, ha, Wranx. The joke's on me! I'm known for my tomatoes, will have to eat crow this year!

Cor

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2003-07-13 10:44 PM

Maybe your neighbor with the green thumb will share a few with you...James

Duncan
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since 2001-08-07

Posts 5455

4 posted 2003-07-13 10:54 PM

Well since you hate your neighbor, I won't tell you how mine are doing.

Maybe no tomatoes this year but how many people can grow a poem??

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

5 posted 2003-07-13 11:54 PM

Coreen...Tomatoes are my most favorite fresh picked thing...I can understand completely!!

timothysangel1973

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since 2001-12-03

Posts 1725
Never close enough

6 posted 2003-07-14 12:11 PM

I have plenty...'cept they are all green...I just pick em' and fry em'

Great write!

Sven

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since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

7 posted 2003-07-14 01:39 AM

hmmm. . . I'm just thinking that Miracle Gro won't be of any use this year. . .

great work. . .

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passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

8 posted 2003-07-14 01:40 AM

had to giggle

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

9 posted 2003-07-14 07:30 AM

Can I PLEASE give you the directions to my Dad's? LOL You can pick all you want... and I won't have to play farm slave... it's a win/win situation! *S*
He has the nerve to complain that his were hit hard by the drought and following monsoon season... and they were... that caused a lot of split skins. *S* But I'm still harvesting bushels of them every week... want to play daughter for a while? *G*

I enjoyed this... especially the ending. *S*

Corinne
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

10 posted 2003-07-14 12:25 PM

Thanks everyone!

Suthern - haha, tell your Dad he's lucky! The soil here is red clay - the worst for growing anything! We had to bring in yards and yards of good soil. Keep pickin'!

Thanks!

Corinne

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